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The New Jersey city has surpassed its previous record for murders. City officials, who say the unionized police force has too many perks, turn to the county to provide a larger and cheaper force.

On April 30, 1980 six armed men stormed the Iranian embassy in London. They took 26 embassy staff and visitors hostage. A six-day siege followed.

The official focus of the parade was the commemoration of the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary. But critics say the president is using the military show of force to push a political agenda.

Craig Messinger was a longtime eyeglass salesman in the Philadelphia suburbs. The beloved father drowned in his car in 2021 at the age of 70, during a flash flood. His daughter remembers him, and reflects on how climate change played a role in his death. This is part of a series of short obituaries for people who have died in recent climate-driven disasters.

NPR's science podcast Short Wave shares how taking a nap can deliver a eureka moment, a new picture of a planet right after it was born, and how wildfires can affect water quality – after the fires stop burning.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Regina Barber and Emily Kwong of Short Wave about shark migration, why woodpeckers are "metalheads," and how the brain interprets the word "not."

A similar hearing last year brought extraordinary moments, including a retired intelligence officer alleging that the U.S. government has recovered nonhuman "biologics" from crash sites.

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of Short Wave about the fluid dynamics of crowds, an early fossil of a modern bird and new data on how people's moods change through the day.

A Utah jury convicted Kouri Richins of fatally spiking her husband's drink with fentanyl in 2022. Prosecutors said she was hoping to collect millions of dollars from multiple life insurance policies.